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Rural Alaska Program Archive

Alaska Native Cultural Celebration

Camp Fire Alaska acknowledges, treasures, and champions the Alaska Native Community. For Native American Heritage Month, staff led a cultural celebration, a special history lesson teaching youth about Alaska Native culture using historical artifacts! Telling History with Alaska Native Heritage… Read More >

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2024 Rural Summer Schedule

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2023 Rural Report

We’re excited to share the news that our 2023 Rural Report is completed and ready to be shared! Please join us in exploring and commemorating the achievements of our Rural Alaska Program this year.

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Visiting Tununak & Chefornak: Camp Fire’s Rural Alaska Program

We love trying new things at Camp Fire Alaska! That goes for all of our programs. This year, our Rural Alaska Program team traveled to a few communities before summer programming to connect with community members about what’s to come this summer and to organize community events.

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Meet Our Rural Staff

Our Rural Alaska Program Travel Staff are officially off in communities across Alaska facilitating programming! We thought we’d take a moment to introduce some of our incredible hires for this season.   Meet Siena (she/her) who recently graduated from the… Read More >

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Rural Alaska Program 2022

  Our Rural Alaska Program is gearing up for yet another summer. This year, we are offering both an in person model and a distribution model. Here are the communities we are working with to bring Camp Fire Alaska fun… Read More >

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Moving Forward Part Two: Rural Alaska Program

In 2021, the continuation of a remote distribution model for a second summer was a huge challenge to face. Yet, with the adaptation of delivery into an all-inclusive distribution model, we learned so much about the curriculum and activities we had to offer. 

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The Camp Fire Alaska main office operates on the ancestral land of the Dena’ina people. Camp Fire Alaska runs programing on the lands of the Athabascan, Yup’ik, Chup’ik, Sougpiaq, and Inupiaq peoples. We value and thank them for their current and historic commitment to and protection of this land. We pledge to assist, in partnership, in the environmental stewardship of these lands. We strive to learn more about the history of the Native peoples of Alaska and the historic trauma they have suffered. We commit to being an active ally through activities, actions, and organizational decisions and practices. We understand that this is a dynamic process through which our Land Acknowledgement practices, and statement will evolve as we receive feedback from tribal partners and acquire a deeper understanding of and from the Native peoples of Alaska..  (v2)